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Blender MCP with Claude Opus 5.5: Token costs analyzed

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A recent analysis investigated the token usage of the MCP for Blender tool when interacting with Claude Code, specifically using the Opus 5.5 model. The study found that typical tasks cost between $0.16 and $0.23, with the majority of tokens attributed to Claude Code's internal instructions rather than the scene descriptions. A more complex task involving a racing scene animation averaged $0.47 per run. However, a significant cost increase was observed when requesting a large output of object properties, which cost $0.87 per task due to Claude Code's need to chunk the response. AI

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Johmisking ·

    How many tokens does Blender MCP really use? 72 Claude Code runs, and a racing scene for $0.47

    <p>People say hooking Blender up to Claude through MCP eats tokens. I couldn't find a single measurement, so I took the most popular server, MCP for Blender, and ran it 72 times in Claude Code: describing scenes, building furniture, recolouring and checking with screenshots, two …

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